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U.S. women's gymnastics looking for 1st team gold since 1996
LONDON — The American women gymnasts giggle like the teenagers they all are as they show off their stash of Olympic pins. A "fave," says team captain Aly Raisman, is the one from Kellogg's cereal. Almost no American can ignore Snap, Crackle and...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Jordyn Wieber, Floor Exercise Gymnastics, Kyla Ross, Vault Gymnastics
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Tears flow for U.S. women, joyful and otherwise
LONDON — Happy tears, sad tears, so many tears for the U.S. women's gymnastics team Sunday. First, the happy: The women qualified first for Tuesday's team final. And now, the sad: Jordyn Wieber — the 17-year-old from Michigan who was the...
Tags: Alexandra Raisman, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Gymnastics, Jordyn Wieber, Floor Exercise Gymnastics
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2012 OLYMPICS: GYMNASTICS: Hard work starts young
Editor's Note: With four interns this summer, the American News asked its young journalists to talk to area high school and college athletes to give their perspectives on sports featured in the 2012 Summer Olympics. Although she is at the high school...
Tags: Gymnastics Clubs, High School Sports, Gymnastics, 2012 Summer Olympics, Floor Exercise Gymnastics
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Gabby Douglas makes, and repeats, history
LONDON -- The leader after one rotation of the Olympic gymnastics women's all-around competition: Gabby Douglas. After two rotations: Gabby Douglas. After three rotations: Gabby Douglas. And after four rotations -- all of them, the vault that requires...
Tags: Alexandra Raisman, Gymnastics Clubs, Gymnastics, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Human Interest
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Gabby Douglas' family, friends in Ind. celebrate Olympic gold
Friends and family of Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas are celebrating her achievements in northwest Indiana. Douglas won the top prize in the women's all-around gymnastics event Thursday, the first African American to ever win this contest. Douglas'...
Tags: Gymnastics, Gabby Douglas
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Individual gymnastics events, and fun, begin
LONDON -- Olympic gymnastics event finals are a bit like a prom after-party. Now that the team and all-around competition is over, it's time to relax and just have fun, maybe even try a few new things. In 2008, American Jonathan Horton added an extra...
Tags: Jonathan Horton, Gymnastics Clubs, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Jordyn Wieber, Floor Exercise Gymnastics
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Uneven performance leaves Douglas 8th on bars
LONDON — It's not often Gabby Douglas competes in gymnastics and expects to lose. But having already won gold medals in the all-around and team competitions, Douglas on Monday was a little slow with her swings on the uneven bars, a little low...Tags: Alexandra Raisman, Jonathan Horton, Gymnastics, Jordyn Wieber, Danell Leyva
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Sports TV and radio: Tuesday's 8/7 log (updated Monday AM)
NON-OLYMPIC TV 10:30 a.m. Soccer: May 1994: Phoebus boys vs. Hampton.--LSC 48 11 a.m. Tennis: Rogers Cup (in Canada).--Tennis Channel Noon Baseball: 1994 VHSCA East-West all-star game.-- LSC 48 3 p.m. Football: Nov. 1995: Deep Creek vs....Tags: Gymnastics Clubs, NASCAR, FC Dallas, ESPN (tv network), Football
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Women dominating at London Olympics
The darkened arena pulsed with anticipation, the thousands of spectators roaring and their cameras flashing like giant fireflies as the boxers swaggered in, punching the air, bouncing on the balls of their feet and glaring like gladiators. And then, the...
Tags: Angel McCoughtry, Gabby Douglas, Lightweight Boxing, McDonald's, Minority Groups
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Tuesday's Olympic Scores
BASKETBALL Women Quarterfinals Australia 75, China 60 United States 91, Canada 48 SOCCER Men Semifinals Mexico 3, Japan 1 HANDBALL Women Quarterfinals Norway 21, Brazil 19 South Korea 24, Russia 23 Spain 25, Croatia 22 HOCKEY...Tags: Jonathan Horton, Will Claye, Gabby Douglas, Jamie Nieto, Lolo Jones
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Jordyn Wieber wins gold in all-around composure
LONDON — In perhaps the most awkward moment for U.S. gymnast Jordyn Wieber in an Olympics full of them, the "Star Spangled Banner" played Tuesday inside North Greenwich Arena as reporters surrounded the tough-luck 17-year-old in the mixed zone. The...
Tags: Alexandra Raisman, Entertainment, Gymnastics Clubs, Music, Gymnastics
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The marketing of Gabby Douglas
LONDON — There is her smile. Gabby Douglas can't keep her smile away, not when she's doing a complicated sequence of leaps and somersaults on the balance beam, not when she giggles and says she'd like to get an Acura NSX Roadster — "Just like...
Tags: Gymnastics Clubs, Jordyn Wieber, Lil Wayne, Gabby Douglas, Awards and Prizes
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